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...exhibition at the Moscow Andrei Sakharov Center as "an insult to the main religion of our country," the Moscow Court found the Center managers guilty of insulting the faith, and fined them $3,500 each. The ROC had an opera, based on a famous fairy tale by the poet Alexander Pushkin, censored to the point of cutting out the priest, who is the tale's main protagonist. "Of course, we have a separation of State and Church," Putin said during a visit to a Russian Orthodox monastery in January 2004. "But in the people's soul they're together...
...introducing a series of environmental films that will be shown at Live Earth. "We have to make it through an uncharted region, to the outer boundaries of what's known, beyond the limits of what we imagine is doable." Then he recited a famous line from the poet Antonio Machado: "Pathwalker, there is no path. You must make the path as you walk." I once heard him get tangled in that line during the 2000 campaign, but this time, he wasn't trying too hard. "We must find a path that we create together, quickly," he said. "With truth force...
...lens mostly on modern Europe's complex landscapes and honing a stark, desolate style. But it isn't all gloom: whatever his subject matter, Koudelka's photographs are marked by his indelible persona. It is this that enables them to transcend mere form: with the eye of a poet, he sees into the soul of his subjects, giving viewers a privileged glimpse into the ineffable...
...must forever be respected. But they died liberating Poland because Stalin and Hitler had carved up that country in 1939. A real tragedy of the war was that Soviet soldiers "boldly entered foreign capitals and came back to their own one in fear," to quote the Nobel Prize Winner poet Josef Brodsky. They destroyed Nazism, but, in a bitter twist of history, their heroism in defense of the Motherland also shored up another despicable tyranny. And having liberated the countries of Eastern Europe, they installed a new occupation...
With a kind smile and bright demeanor, Emily K. Vasiliauskas ’07 doesn’t seem a likely match for the cryptic, tenebrous Paul Celan, a mid 20th-century German-Jewish poet who famously wrote works about the Holocaust. Nonetheless, her thesis explored what she terms “ineffability as a philosophical problem” in Celan’s work, or “how to talk about what you can’t talk about.”As a co-Editor-in-Chief of The Harvard Gamut, a poetry editor on Persephone...